Botticelli - May 2024

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Does your filmography include roles as a murderous monk, a drunken author, a naval surgeon-slash-naturalist-slash-spy, an AI, and a delusion?
2. Were you a Georgia-born comedian and actor, or an identically-named centerfielder for the Braves and Royals?
3. Were you “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”?

1. I am not Brad Pitt (??)
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Lord Byron (?)

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@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. and 2. Did Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day play people who looked coincidentally like the two of you in a recent SNL sketch with Heidi Gardner, who couldn’t help herself and cracked up once she saw Day in makeup and prosthetics?
2. Did you lead the Iceni against the Romans?

1 & 2. I am not Beavis, nor Butthead.
3. I am not Boadicea.

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1 & 2. I am not Beavis, nor Butthead.
3. I am not Boadicea.

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Were you and your fellow heroes (Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, etc.) mysteriously sent to a small farm town after a climactic battle against Anti-God, in the Dark Horse comics series you share a name with?
2. Are you a gay former congressman for Massachusetts?
3. Do you star in the current big-screen version of The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling, who attended the LA premiere with Mikey Day once again in full Beavis and Butt-Head get-up?

[SunUp]

IQs:

1. Did you once say “I’d rather be a ballplayer than a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court”?
2. Were you a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
3. Were you a ballplayer who was common platoon mate of Gary Roenicke and John Lowenstein as an Orioles outfielder?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Does your filmography include roles as a murderous monk, a drunken author, a naval surgeon-slash-naturalist-slash-spy, an AI, and a delusion?
2. Were you a Georgia-born comedian and actor, or an identically-named centerfielder for the Braves and Royals?
3. Were you “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”?

1. I am not Brad Pitt (??)
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Lord Byron (?)

1 is Paul Bettany, as Silas in The DaVinci Code, Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight’s Tale, Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, JARVIS in the Marvel CU, and Russell Crowe’s imaginary roommate in A Brilliant Mind. 2 was Brett Butler. 3 was indeed Lord Byron.

DQs:

1. Speculative fiction author?
2. Well-known outside his genre?

IQs:

1. When asked by a superhero what your powers were, did you reply, “I’m rich”?
2. Were you one of the Astro’s “Killer B’s” (will accept any of four names)?
3. Did you come up with the now-outmoded model of the atom as a nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you choreograph a still-popular version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker? - Yes, George Balanchine
Did you lose horribly at the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Gen. Ambrose Burnside, during the Civil War
Did you sing about geometric shapes in granular media? - Belinda Carlisle

DQs:

Best known for short stories?
Usually associated with a particular city?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Have you played a Federal prosecutor, a TV network executive, a concierge and a computer expert?
Did you appear in a TV commercial with a singer/dancer and a dog?
Were you that singer/dancer?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with B
4. American
5. Known for the arts
6. Dead
7. Known for the literary arts
8. Known for writing novels
9. Died before 1960.
10. Did not win any awards
11. Genre writer
12. Not usually taught in schools
13. Speculative fiction author
14. Not known outside his genre
15. Not best known for short stories
16. Usually associated with a particular fictional city

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Were you and your fellow heroes (Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, etc.) mysteriously sent to a small farm town after a climactic battle against Anti-God, in the Dark Horse comics series you share a name with?
2. Are you a gay former congressman for Massachusetts?
3. Do you star in the current big-screen version of The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling, who attended the LA premiere with Mikey Day once again in full Beavis and Butt-Head get-up?

Take 3 DQs.

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Did you once say “I’d rather be a ballplayer than a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court”?
2. Were you a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
3. Were you a ballplayer who was common platoon mate of Gary Roenicke and John Lowenstein as an Orioles outfielder?

2. I am not Warren Burger. Take 2 DQs.

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. When asked by a superhero what your powers were, did you reply, “I’m rich”?
2. Were you one of the Astro’s “Killer B’s” (will accept any of four names)?
3. Did you come up with the now-outmoded model of the atom as a nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons?

1. I am not… Batman (nor Bruce Wayne).
   Take 2 DQs.

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Have you played a Federal prosecutor, a TV network executive, a concierge and a computer expert?
Did you appear in a TV commercial with a singer/dancer and a dog?
Were you that singer/dancer?

#3. I am not Ben Vereen (??)
Take at least 2 DQs.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@SunUp

…2. Were you a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?..

Nitpick: Chief Justice of the United States.

Previous IQs:

Have you played a Federal prosecutor, a TV network executive, a concierge and a computer expert? - Bob Balaban, in Absence of Malice, Seinfeld, The Grand Budapest Hotel and 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Did you appear in a TV commercial with a singer/dancer and a dog? - Bob Dole
Were you that singer/dancer? - Not Ben Vereen, but Britney Spears

Three DQs reserved. Hmm. Lemme see…

[SunUp]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@SunUp

1. Did you once say “I’d rather be a ballplayer than a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court”?
2. Were you a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
3. Were you a ballplayer who was common platoon mate of Gary Roenicke and John Lowenstein as an Orioles outfielder?

2. I am not Warren Burger. Take 2 DQs.

#1 was Moe Berg, catcher and agent for the OSS.
#3 was Benny Ayala.

2 DQs reserved.

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Were you and your fellow heroes (Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, etc.) mysteriously sent to a small farm town after a climactic battle against Anti-God, in the Dark Horse comics series you share a name with?
2. Are you a gay former congressman for Massachusetts?
3. Do you star in the current big-screen version of The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling, who attended the LA premiere with Mikey Day once again in full Beavis and Butt-Head get-up?

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

Take 3 DQs.

1 was Black Hammer; 2 was Barney Frank; 3 was Emily Blunt.

DQs:
1. known for fantasy?
2. died before 1930?

1 DQ reserved.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with B
4. American
5. Known for the arts
6. Dead
7. Known for the literary arts
8. Known for writing novels
9. Died before 1960.
10. Did not win any awards
11. Genre writer
12. Not usually taught in schools
13. Speculative fiction author
14. Not known outside his genre
15. Not best known for short stories
16. Usually associated with a particular fictional city
17. Known for fantasy
18. Died before 1930

[kitap]

@kitap

Congrats!

1. Did you play Jodie Dallas on Soap?J
2. Did Robert Guillaume play you on Soap?
3. Were you half of a ventriloquism team on Soap?

Billy Crystal, correct, Bob, the dummy in the Chuck and Bob act.,

DQs:

1. First name begins with A-M?

2. Wrote a,series?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. When asked by a superhero what your powers were, did you reply, “I’m rich”?
2. Were you one of the Astro’s “Killer B’s” (will accept any of four names)?
3. Did you come up with the now-outmoded model of the atom as a nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons?

1. I am not… Batman (nor Bruce Wayne).
   Take 2 DQs.

Correct on Bruce Wayne. 2 was Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio, Derek Bell, or Lance Berkman. 3 was the Danish physicist Niels Bohr.

DQs:

1. Wrote a series of novels about a mythical land ruled by a conman wizard?
2. Most famous work made into a movie?

IQs:

1. Did you write a comic strip about a young boy and his penguin?
2. Are you an Irish comedian who lives and works in the UK, who uses a stage name - rather than her real surname of O’Sullivan - in honor of her father?
3. Do two persistent but debunked urban legends about your most famous work assert that was written as a satire on the Free Silver movement of the late 19th century, and that the movie of it synchs perfectly to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

Do two persistent but debunked urban legends about your most famous work assert that was written as a satire on the Free Silver movement of the late 19th century, and that the movie of it synchs perfectly to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon?

Yes, I am

L. Frank Baum!

Nicely done, SMV!

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

He looks like he could play the Wizard himself. Not a face I’d trust to sell me a used car, to be frank.

Given that today is the penultimate day of May, I’ve started the next round in a new thread:

Botticelli - June 2024

Since it’s the penultimate day of May, I’ll start a new thread for June. I am V!

[De_La_Rue]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

to be frank

Pun intended?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

No, but dammit, I wish it had been!

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

That would’ve been da Baum.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

I laughed.